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Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe : et sur les changemens qu'elles ont produits dans le régne animal

by: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832; Wells, John West, 1907-1994, former owner. DSI; Wells, Ellen B., donor. DSI

Publication date: 1826

Topics: Geology, Paleontology

Publisher: Paris ; Amsterdam : Chez G. Dufour et Ed. d'Ocagne

Collection: smithsonian; biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: French

First published with title "Discours préliminaire" as part of the author's "Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes"; reprinted in 1821 under title: Discours sur la théorie de la terre

"Paris: Imprimerie de A. Belin"--Verso of half title

"Appendice ... Détermination des oiseaux nommés ibis par les anciens égyptiens": p. [175]-194

Title vignette; side-notes

Includes bibliographical references

Smith, J.C. Georges Cuvier

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SCNHRB copy 39088011700127 lacking portrait of Cuvier but with 3 extra plates, signed Mlle de Balzac (possibly from the 1825 ed.) tipped-in

SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Ellen B. Wells in memory of John West Wells. Inscribed in pencil on front free endpaper: J.W. Wells. Bookdealer's description laid-in

SCNHRB copy inscribed in ink on t.p.: Henryson

SCNHRB copy bound in half calf and paste papers; title in gilt within orange spine label